It's a love song. I'm not sure how some of you are getting break-up stories or BDSM out of it.
Where does the story that leads to him explaining that the woman he loves isn't his slave? It comes from the fact that people still have to ask questions about the implications of him saying that.
The song is about being in love with someone as an equal, in complete defiance of the socially and culturally inherited traditional ideas and roles that skew that concept. He's taking not just a sympathetic stance on this principle, but a personal, passionate one. He has deep grievances with the tensions that go along with gender roles in love; he doesn't want to be viewed that way, he doesn't want to treat her that way, and he doesn't want her to view herself that way or treat him that way. It doesn't matter what other people expect, think, do, or say. They're breaking the mold as individuals. Their relationship isn't going to be a cog in the big machine of the inherited, thoroughly disturbed culture.
Put simply: "Fuck everyone else--we'll do this our way."
It's a love song. I'm not sure how some of you are getting break-up stories or BDSM out of it.
Where does the story that leads to him explaining that the woman he loves isn't his slave? It comes from the fact that people still have to ask questions about the implications of him saying that.
The song is about being in love with someone as an equal, in complete defiance of the socially and culturally inherited traditional ideas and roles that skew that concept. He's taking not just a sympathetic stance on this principle, but a personal, passionate one. He has deep grievances with the tensions that go along with gender roles in love; he doesn't want to be viewed that way, he doesn't want to treat her that way, and he doesn't want her to view herself that way or treat him that way. It doesn't matter what other people expect, think, do, or say. They're breaking the mold as individuals. Their relationship isn't going to be a cog in the big machine of the inherited, thoroughly disturbed culture.
Put simply: "Fuck everyone else--we'll do this our way."